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Still reeling from winter season injuries, the Harvard track team trudged up to Hanover, N.H. this weekend and came up short in its quad-meet against Dartmouth, Brown and Birmingham-England...
They had spent a quarter to a third of their lives behind bars, convicted on faulty evidence, but finally last week the Birmingham Six were free. Sentenced 15 years ago to life in prison for 21 deaths caused by two 1974 Birmingham pub bombings carried out in the name of the Irish Republican Army, the six Irishmen won their liberty after Britain's Court of Appeal at last concurred with their contention that the case against them was a sham...
...Birmingham affair is the third major terrorism case in 1 1/2 years in which evidence compiled by authorities has been found wanting. Now the system that locked the six men up is itself on trial. "It must never happen again," Home Secretary Kenneth Baker declared as he announced the formation of a Royal Commission to examine the country's criminal-justice system, in particular the appeals process, which had earlier failed the Birmingham...
Around the Cabinet table, the new Secretary can be expected to provide calm, deliberate counsel. "He is totally at ease with power," says Marty Connors, executive director of the Southern Republican Exchange, a Birmingham think tank founded by Alexander. Equally important, Alexander and his wife are longtime social intimates of the Bushes who get along with the First Family on a first-name basis. Good choice, George...
Lawson herself grew up next door to Mississippi, in a suburb of Birmingham. She dropped out of Tuskeegee Institute to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Later she moved to Washington, then spent two years in Tanzania helping bring together Africans and African Americans interested in the arts. After getting a master's degree in film from Columbia University and making "a few mediocre documentaries that definitely will not be shown on public television," Lawson got a job teaching film at Brooklyn College. She also served as executive director of the Film Fund, which financed independent documentaries, and later...